A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.